Health, Homepage - Written by The Source on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 13:28 - 5 Comments
FDA seeks to ban narcotics mixed with acetaminophen
Government experts say prescription drugs like Vicodin and Percocet that combine a popular painkiller with stronger narcotics should be eliminated because of their role in deadly overdoses.
A Food and Drug Administration panel on Tuesday voted 20-17 that prescription drugs that combine acetaminophen with other painkilling ingredients should be pulled off the market.
The FDA has assembled a group of experts to vote on ways to reduce liver damage associated with acetaminophen, one of the most widely used drugs in the U.S.
Despite years of educational campaigns and other federal actions, acetaminophen remains the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., according to the FDA.
Panelists cited FDA data indicating 60 percent of acetaminophen-related deaths are related to prescription products. Acetaminophen is also found in popular over-the-counter medications like Tylenol and Excedrin.
Spotted at DoseNation
5 Comments
Claire Fisher
If high doses of acetaminophen cause liver damage, it only makes sense to reduce the dosage. I would think doctors could easily prescribe the other drugs contained in Vicodin and Percocet separately from acetaminophen.
Michael Jacksons Best CDs | Michael Jackson-The King of Pop-Memorials
[...] The Source - FDA seeks to ban narcotics mixed with acetaminophen [...]
Rose
They are only banning the combination drugs, not the pain killers. You can still get a prescription for codeine, but will half to take the tylenol seperate. Many people are taking vicodin or percocet and an additional full dose of tylenol. Parents are giving cold tablets that contain tylenol to their children then medicating with additional tylenol causing a toxic overdose!
It actually tickles me when certain people ask “Are ya’ll products regulated by the FDA?” as if the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is the authority on what’s safe, acceptable, and salubrious.
Just because something is approved, approved by government (FDA), doesn’t mean it’s safe.
Aspirin is approved by the FDA but yet in still aspirin kills some 25,000 people per year. So the fact is, aspirin is approved, but it’s not safe. Prozac is approved, but it isn’t safe!
Deprivin is approved, but it isn’t safe. Coumadin is approved but it isn’t safe!
The U.S. F.D.A stamp of approval is not the criterion for safety or what is actually safe for human consumption.
If the FDA said dog piss was safe and thus approved by them, would you start consuming dog piss? Drinking dog piss wouldn’t register with you as far as drinking it because you have not been conditioned to drink it. The FDA only reinforces what has been conditioned into the American mind.
When the FDA says a man-made drug is safe despite the fact that the drug is made from oxides, you simply trust this agency and consume it, and why? Well, simply because you have been successfully brainwashed (conditioned) to take drugs as medicine; but drugs are not medicine. Plants are medicine! Medicine is food and food is medicine as the great Imhotep said.
Is aspirin a food? Of course not! You don’t eat aspirin soup or stew, do you? Do you eat Rice, Beans, and Prozac? Of course not! Do you eat macaroni and Coumadin? Do you eat Valium pie? Again, of course not!
Of course you don’t eat of the things above because these things (drugs) are not food though the FDA will write them off as such. The FDA even considers bubble gum a food! How can a thing that contains 0% nutrition be considered a food? Food is supposed to nourish the body via providing essential nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, B-vitamins, amino acids, and essential fatty acids to name a few. Bubble gum is made of rubber and plastic and are rubber and plastic food? Just because you can put something in your mouth doesn’t make it a food nor does it mean what’s in your mouth is nutritious.
No drug nourishes your body, but what drugs do in fact do is pollute the body and harm the body. Drugs are lethal! Fatal!
Is it really wise to trust an agency that actually promoted smoking back in the early 1970s when today we know that cigarettes and cigarette smoke kills and by the hundreds of thousands? This is what your beloved FDA did (actually promoted cigarette smoking as safe and healthy) and you can go research it.
The FDA does not have human health interests at heart! The FDA does not serve the interests of the American people, but instead serves the pharmaceutical industry, a/k/a Big Pharma. But what do you expect when the majority of FDA officials work or worked for Big Pharma corporations?
We have a situation today in the United States where the wolf is watching the fox. How can the FDA monitor the pharmaceutical industry when it is made up of former board members of top pharmaceutical companies? It can’t! And it won’t!
It’s all about money and keeping the American people sick is a big money maker. Legal drug dealing! That’s all we’re talking about with the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry. Whether a drug is legal or illegal, the government still benefits. The government regulates and police both legal drugs and illegal drugs.
The FDA police legal drugs and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) police illegal drugs. If you really want to be successful in the drug game it’s best to work for the government - become a legalized drug pusher. They are better known as doctors and pharmacists and they are both government agents via licensing (government approval).
The above content is what makes it a trip to me when people ask are my compounds FDA-approved and/or regulated. These same people will smoke crack cocaine and never ask the crack man or dope man is the crack approved by the FDA. They will drink Hennessey, Scotch, and Gin and never think to ask the bartender before they take a swallow “Is this intoxicant approved by the FDA?” Even if it is approved by the FDA, they won’t ask.
Again, most people are programmed to only question salubrious things but never the insalubrious things - the vices! Our world and society is the way that it is for a reason - IGNORANCE and UNCONSCIOUNESS!
Some 700,000 to 1 million people die per year because they believed the FDA-approved drugs they took were safe. But how can poison be safe? And you do know that all drugs are poisons and poisonous, right? After all, the bottle and box the drug comes in contain a little warning that reads: “In case of accidental overdose contact a poison control center.”
But I have to ask the question - why would you be calling a POISON control center when you are supposed to be taking medicine? Is it because you are actually taking poison under the guise of medicine? You need to ask yourself this, especially before you take a drug ever again.
Drugs kill! They are dangerous! Just look at what recently happened with the King of Pop! DRUGS! Regardless of how the drugs were administered, they played a role in killing Michael Jackson.
Drugs approved for human use by the FDA stopped the heart of Michael Jackson.
In closing, are my herbal compounds approved by the FDA? No! They are approved by God and Nature and that’s good enough for me! We are told in the Bible that leaves (leaf) is for medicine (Ezekiel 47:12) and the healing of the nations (Revelation 22:2. Scripture does not mention drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, for purposes of healing.
Who gave the FDA the authority to determine what’s safe anyway? The people of the United States surely didn’t!
You’re going to trust members of the United States Congress to determine what food is and what is considered safe? These individuals can’t even determine what’s best for the nation, and you’re going to trust them to tell you what’s best for you and your family as far as health and nutrition is concerned?
The American people really need to really wake up as well as think over the contents of this article!
Thank you for reading!
This article is compliments of Dherbs.com and Djehuty Ma’at-Ra.
Additional articles by Djehuty available @ http://www.dherbs.com/articles/
Leave a Reply
On Newsstands NOW!
DOWNLOAD NOW!
The Source Mailing List:














I have Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, and 2 pinched nerves in my neck & back. I am in pain constantly but I muddle through life however I can. Sometimes it means I spend days/weeks/months in bed. No doctor I’ve ever been to hands this stuff out like candy- nor would I want them to. I’ve been able to occasionally get a script when the pain has gotten bad enough to where I can’t walk. I fear for my future- and I invite the FDA to count the bodies of those in constant, chronic pain that choose suicide over laying in bed in agony.